Nurturing
High-Achievers, Gifted Learners, and
Creative Thinkers
Educators examine a three-way comparison
of similarities and differences among high
achievers, gifted learners, and creative
thinkers and then select from
research-based techniques that maximize
the achievement potential of
each.

Promoting
Rigor and Engagement
Promote greater rigor to reach higher
achievement. In this practical
presentation, educators learn to clearly
define rigor and integrate the elements of
rigor into engaging instruction. Explore
strategies and tools to use every day to
raise the level of rigor in
classrooms.

Ready-to-Use
Strategies to Differentiate
Instruction
This humorous and practical session
emphasizes research-based strategies that
work with multiple topics and incorporate
targeted concepts and skills so less
intensive teacher preparation results in
long-term learning and higher student
achievement.

The
Rights and Responsibilities of Gifted
Learners When Life-long Learning is the
Goal
Through humor and practical applications,
Dr. Kingore translates research and best
practices from the past and present into a
vision of the most promising practices for
the future of gifted education. Explore a
three-way comparison of the rights,
responsibilities, and instructional needs
of advanced and gifted
learners.

Differentiating
Instruction for Gifted Students in
Mixed-Ability Classrooms:
Grades
K-8This session matches differentiation
strategies to the learning needs of
advanced students and models specific
techniques to lift students'
accomplishments through abstract thinking,
complexity, and content depth. The
techniques require less intensive teacher
preparation and simplify management issues
as they develop advanced students'
independence and responsibility for
continued learning.

Effective
Ways to Differentiate instruction without
Overwhelming Educators: Grades K-8
Through humor and practical applications,
Dr. Kingore translates achievement
research into more than 40 effective
strategies and learning experiences for
participants to select that differentiate
instruction in mixed-ability classrooms.
The emphasis is on constructing effective
learning environments and implementing
learning experiences that work with
multiple topics and expand targeted
concepts and skills to promote continuous
learning for all students.

Identifying
Gifted Potential Through Differentiated
Instruction: Grades K-6Developmentally appropriate
identification of children and
under-represented populations is a
significant issue. This session engages
participants in differentiated strategies,
the Kingore Observation Inventory (KOI),
and planned experiences to provide ongoing
high-level learning opportunities for all
students and identify gifted potential.
Participants learn current research
results, procedures, and applications from
a three-year study using these procedures
that significantly increased gifted
representation of children of diversity
and low SES in high-poverty districts.
Participants engage in newly-developed
planned experiences eliciting gifted
behaviors, partake in an identification
simulation, interpret data with a rubric,
and experience communicating results with
parents.

Just
What I Need! Learning Experiences with
Multiple Applications:
Grades
K-8Save instruction time, incorporate
standards, and increase student
achievement using learning experiences
with multiple applications. This practical
session invites participants to select
from a repertoire of modeled strategies
and activities that encourage student
excellence while minimizing teachers'
preparation time. Dr. Kingore demonstrates
techniques for high-order thinking,
advanced vocabulary development, and the
integration of content with standards and
skills at and beyond grade
level.

Reaching
All Learners: Making Differentiation Work,
Grades K-8
The reality is that when students
represent different levels of readiness,
different levels of instruction are
needed. In this practical session of
research-based strategies, teachers engage
in learning experiences and support
systems that vary lessons for students
with fewer skills, vary lessons to
increase challenge, and more efficiently
provide product options to reach diverse
learners. Dr. Kingore models successful
guidelines to effectively manage the
learning environment and a teaching
palette of multiple strategies and
activities for differentiating
instruction.

Recognizing
and Nurturing Gifted
Potential:
Grades
K-8This session focuses on features of
the Kingore Observation Inventory (KOI)
that guide identification of gifted
potential by 1) clarifying learning
patterns to observe over time, 2)
providing ongoing high-level learning
opportunities for all students to reveal
potentials, and 3) initiating a standard
that documents teachers' insights about
their students. The system enables
teachers to immediately initiate
appropriate differentiation and
effectively communicate with
parents.

Rigor
and Engagement for Growing Minds: Grades
K-6:
Grades
K-8In this practical session,
participants experience a wide range of
effective strategies that enable advanced
children to flourish in mixed-ability
classrooms. The shared procedures invite
all children to learn while promoting
advanced achievement, high-level thinking,
complexity, and depth using wonderful
children's literature, simple materials,
learning stations, and graphic organizers
that minimize the intensity of teacher
preparation.

Recommended
materials:Rigor and Engagement for Growing
Minds: Strategies that Enable Advanced
Children to Flourish in Mixed-ability
Classrooms (In press)

Teaching
Without Nonsense: Activities and
Techniques for Effective Instruction:
Grades K-8
It is nonsense to promote simple thinking
when high-level thinking results in higher
achievement; it is nonsense to apply basic
learning experiences that are fun but lack
productive applications of challenging
concepts and skills; and it is nonsense to
make instructional decisions devoid of
research. Dr. Kingore models a potpourri
of ready-to-use learning experiences and
techniques to insure that each student
experiences continuous learning. The
modeled applications include 10 quick
assessment techniques when you only have a
minute.

Tiered
Learning Stations: Increase Achievement,
High-Level Thinking, and the Joy of
Learning: Grades 1-8Learning stations are work sites where
significant learning objectives and
flexible group interactions are
accomplished with a minimum of classroom
space. Tiered stations promote continuous
learning for all students at appropriate
yet varied levels of complexity and depth.
Learn how to organize stations that
increase students' achievement gains,
integrate learning standards and
high-level thinking, extend student
responsibility, develop independent work
habits, and use rubrics and reflection to
assess the quality of product and process.
This session includes plans for several
tiered learning stations that teachers can
prepare in minutes to accelerate students'
minds and bodies into a high learning
gear.

Ways to
Save Time, Promote Rigor, and Increase
Engagement: Grades K-8 or K-12In a rigorous learning environment,
students are expected to engage in
high-level learning processes, supported
so they can learn, and required to
demonstrate relevant products and content.
This practical presentation demonstrates
differentiation that is manageable and
effective in a rigorous learning
environment. Through humor and practical
applications, Dr. Kingore translates
achievement research into realistic and
effective strategies that participants
select to differentiate instruction in
mixed-ability classrooms without leaving
advanced students behind. Educators learn
to integrate rigor into instruction, and
then teach students how to apply these
elements to their studies. You will exit
with ready-to-use strategies and tools you
can apply every day to raise the level of
engagement and achievement in classrooms.